That’s it for today’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, where Conservative and Labour visitors were grilled on their reactions to Donald Trump’s statement on Friday of a contract with Moscow to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel exports till 7 April.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Trump’s statement, to which the United States president later on reacted, stating “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president”
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting informed Victoria Derbyshire, who is actioning in for Laura Kuenssberg: “We stand with President Zelensky”
He stated that the federal government desires “to see strong Western unity in resolve and support for Ukraine” and sees it as its obligation to “try and bring our friends back together”
Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith stated Trump was “wrong” to blame the increase in expense of diesel on Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries.
He stated there is a “big issue” with the expense of energy however that Trump’s handle Putin sends out “all of the wrong messages”including: “If you want a peaceful world, you don’t do that sort of deal”
Minister of Scotland John Swinney was inquired about his aspirations for Scottish self-reliance.
He stated the “only way” Andy Burnham can “prove that he will not be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom” is by providing Scottish individuals “a choice about their own constitutional future” and accepting a self-reliance referendum.
We’re quickly ending our live protection – thanks for joining us.
Jamie Whitehead
Live page editor
Image source, Reuters
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting remains in the spot today talking to Victoria Derbyshire, who is actioning in to host Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
For Streeting, it comes at completion of a week which saw his Labour Party see off the obstacle from Green Party leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali held the north London seat for Labour, however the celebration’s bulk was decreased from 11,572 to 3,364.
The by-election, activated after previous Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood down as an MP, had actually been viewed as an essential test of whether Labour under Andy Burnham can win over citizens who have actually changed to the Greens.
Polanski has actually pledged to remain on as Green Party leader after his by-election defeat, as he dealt with pressure from within his own celebration to resign.
Appearing on the program this early morning are shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith and Scottish First Minister John Swinney.
We’ve likewise got an interview with Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski turning up.
We will not be supplying routine text updates today, however you’ll have the ability to view the program from 09:00 BST by pushing watch live
above, and it’s likewise on iPlayer and BBC One.
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